5O HISTORY OF HARTING. 



child only, a daughter. Constance Hussey's first hus- 

 band was Henry Lovell, next Sir Roger Lewknor ; * 

 and as Lady Lewknor she presented Reginald Pole, 

 afterwards the great Cardinal, to the living of Harting, 

 1525, through her commissioner and neighbour "Henry 

 Pole, Lord Montague," the future Cardinal's brother.f 

 Constance Hussey was a kinswoman of Cardinal Pole 

 through the Pakenhams. 



Elizabeth, the only daughter of Constance Lovell 

 and sole heir, married Sir Anthony Windsor, brother 

 of Lord Windsor, who lived at Down Park, West 

 Harting, in a moated house, traces of which still 

 remain, a contiguous field being called "Parlour field" 

 to this day, and the direction of the drive, as Mr. 

 Weaver informs me, being visible in dry weather. 



The monastery of Durford, with its lands, was given 

 by the Crown (29 Hen. VIII.) to William Fitzwilliam, 

 Admiral of England, who again aliened it to Henry 



* West Harting Leager ; also, Dr. Wilkinson, " Notes of 

 Genealogies " ; also, Bishop Storye's Register Chichester Ar- 

 chives, 1502, May 31. 



f Register of Bishop Robt. Sherburn, p. 52 : " Ap. 10, 1526, 

 Reginald Pole, clerk, admitted to the Rectory of Harting, Chich. 

 Diocese, vacant by resignation of William Gibson, last rector ; 

 patron Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, acting as commissary for 

 Sir Roger Lewknor and Lady Constance his wife, patrons of the 

 Church for this turn." It further appears, p. 78 of the same 

 register, which is written " in the most elegant hand " of Bishop 

 Sherburn, that, Ap. 13, 1526, three days after his institution, 

 Reginald Pole made a pension of ,24 out of the fruits of the 

 Rectory of Harting, in part for the salary of Warblyngton dio. 

 Winton. All this favours the well-known tradition that Cardinal 

 Pole was born at Racton (See Athenaum, 8th Oct., 1874). 

 Reginald Pole is described as Rector of Harting in Valor Eccle- 

 siasticus (1535). 



It may be added that the local tradition that Cardinal Pole 

 was Rector of Harting is recorded in the early part of the last 

 century. Thus Mr. Tench, Rector of Harting, Jan. 18, 1711, 

 writing under feigned name of " Jacob Hudson" (Caryll MSS. 

 Addl. 28, 229, p. 358), says : " The Rector (of Harting) has 

 always presented ye Vicar ever since Cardinal Poole's time who 

 was Parson of Harting." 



